Turkey's response to the situation in the region - statements on the creation of medium-range ballistic missiles
About the beginning of the process of building medium-range missiles was reported recently, some members of the Turkish government. According to these statements, missiles with a range of 2.5 thousands of kilometers will be created in Turkey in the near future. Some Turkish experts in the field of armaments consider this decision irrational, but the program to build ballistic missiles has already been launched, and no criticism will help to stop its action.
Professor Y. Altinbasakas from the state research institute TUBITAK considers this decision to be a necessary and correct decision. Although Turkey’s ability to build capacity and achieve its goal looks uncertain. He also notes that this decision - the design and production of its own missiles capable of achieving the goal at a distance of 2.5 thousands of kilometers, was accepted at the request of Turkish Prime Minister R. Erdogan at the recent meeting of the High Technology Council. The professor told reporters that the Turkish designers successfully constructed and built a BD to 500 kilometers, which successfully passed the tests at the test site and showed an average QUO equal to 5 meters. The next stage - the creation and production of MRBD to 1500 kilometers, which is almost complete, it remains only to conduct field testing in 2012 year. After the test, we can talk about the continuation of the program and the creation of MRBM to 2500 kilometers. And although the professor is confident of the continuation of the program, many analysts are skeptical about this statement.
TUBITAK is Turkey’s main ballistic missile design center. The first ballistic missile created in TUBITAK is J-600T Yıldırım I. It has a range of 150-185 kilometers. The next Yıldırım 2 rocket had a range of 300 kilometers. Now, the range of the rocket in 500 kilometers, possibly achieved at the expense of a smaller mass BG or other minor modifications. In reality, a fundamentally new rocket has not been created, and therefore the claimed range of thousands of kilometers in 2.5 causes similar skepticism. And the tests conducted BRMD at a distance of 500 kilometers, were, for some reason imperceptible and not illuminated. Most likely, these statements on the creation of MRBR are the answer to the current situation in the region. This is despite the fact that Turkey is committed to possessing the most up-to-date Air Force, it invests a lot of effort to increase the Air Force. In addition, since 97, Turkey has been part of the MTCR - the controlling authority for rocket technology. It was founded in 87 by the United States, France, Italy, Britain, Canada, Germany and Japan, as an informal and voluntary organization. Purpose of creation - the non-proliferation of unmanned air systems as a means of delivery weapons mass destruction over long distances. It was the creation of the MTCR that became the main brake on the creation of such unmanned systems - Iraq, Argentina and Egypt stopped development of the ballistic missile program at one time, South Africa, Taiwan, Brazil and South Korea postponed or stopped their space and rocket programs. And the Czech Republic and Poland, in order to demonstrate readiness to join NATO and MTCR, simply eliminated their arsenal of ballistic missiles. But this community has weak links. Pakistan and India, North Korea and Iran, despite opposition from members of the MTCR, are successfully developing this area. These states today have MRBM with a range of not less than one thousand kilometers, and develop them further. Iran, which has an agreement on military mutual aid with Syria, supplies some components of such missiles and to it.
Therefore, this statement, most likely, is a kind of challenge to Iran and Syria. The countries of the region have to respond to the situation and the statements of their neighbors as the situation becomes more complex. The statements of the Iranian authorities provoke Turkey, whose behavior has recently become increasingly aggressive. The MTCR community is likely to begin to actively block Turkey’s access to the procurement of necessary components, and it will be difficult for it to achieve its goals of creating MRBMs.
Professor Y. Altinbasakas from the state research institute TUBITAK considers this decision to be a necessary and correct decision. Although Turkey’s ability to build capacity and achieve its goal looks uncertain. He also notes that this decision - the design and production of its own missiles capable of achieving the goal at a distance of 2.5 thousands of kilometers, was accepted at the request of Turkish Prime Minister R. Erdogan at the recent meeting of the High Technology Council. The professor told reporters that the Turkish designers successfully constructed and built a BD to 500 kilometers, which successfully passed the tests at the test site and showed an average QUO equal to 5 meters. The next stage - the creation and production of MRBD to 1500 kilometers, which is almost complete, it remains only to conduct field testing in 2012 year. After the test, we can talk about the continuation of the program and the creation of MRBM to 2500 kilometers. And although the professor is confident of the continuation of the program, many analysts are skeptical about this statement.
TUBITAK is Turkey’s main ballistic missile design center. The first ballistic missile created in TUBITAK is J-600T Yıldırım I. It has a range of 150-185 kilometers. The next Yıldırım 2 rocket had a range of 300 kilometers. Now, the range of the rocket in 500 kilometers, possibly achieved at the expense of a smaller mass BG or other minor modifications. In reality, a fundamentally new rocket has not been created, and therefore the claimed range of thousands of kilometers in 2.5 causes similar skepticism. And the tests conducted BRMD at a distance of 500 kilometers, were, for some reason imperceptible and not illuminated. Most likely, these statements on the creation of MRBR are the answer to the current situation in the region. This is despite the fact that Turkey is committed to possessing the most up-to-date Air Force, it invests a lot of effort to increase the Air Force. In addition, since 97, Turkey has been part of the MTCR - the controlling authority for rocket technology. It was founded in 87 by the United States, France, Italy, Britain, Canada, Germany and Japan, as an informal and voluntary organization. Purpose of creation - the non-proliferation of unmanned air systems as a means of delivery weapons mass destruction over long distances. It was the creation of the MTCR that became the main brake on the creation of such unmanned systems - Iraq, Argentina and Egypt stopped development of the ballistic missile program at one time, South Africa, Taiwan, Brazil and South Korea postponed or stopped their space and rocket programs. And the Czech Republic and Poland, in order to demonstrate readiness to join NATO and MTCR, simply eliminated their arsenal of ballistic missiles. But this community has weak links. Pakistan and India, North Korea and Iran, despite opposition from members of the MTCR, are successfully developing this area. These states today have MRBM with a range of not less than one thousand kilometers, and develop them further. Iran, which has an agreement on military mutual aid with Syria, supplies some components of such missiles and to it.
Therefore, this statement, most likely, is a kind of challenge to Iran and Syria. The countries of the region have to respond to the situation and the statements of their neighbors as the situation becomes more complex. The statements of the Iranian authorities provoke Turkey, whose behavior has recently become increasingly aggressive. The MTCR community is likely to begin to actively block Turkey’s access to the procurement of necessary components, and it will be difficult for it to achieve its goals of creating MRBMs.
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